City Council Meeting: 15 March 2021
03/14/21 • 56 min
Today we are talking about the next City Council meeting, coming up March 15th. We touch on fair access to housing, the Trans Day of Visibility, and as we often do, defunding the police.
Links from today's episode:
- This week's Council agenda
- The University of Michigan Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality (PCCN)
- Reporting trans discrimination to the City of Ann Arbor and to the State of Michigan
- what trash thing?
And, for our Beyond Council Advocacy Corner,
- The Planning Commission agenda covering ADUs, which includes info on how to dial in to voice your support for the meeting on Tuesday, March 16th; or you can email [email protected] anytime between now and then
- Learn more about ADUs here
- And make sure to press A2 congressional reps Debbie Dingell, Debbie Stabenow, and Gary Peters to make sure Ann Arbor gets its proper allocation of the federal American Recovery Plan funds
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Today we are talking about the next City Council meeting, coming up March 15th. We touch on fair access to housing, the Trans Day of Visibility, and as we often do, defunding the police.
Links from today's episode:
- This week's Council agenda
- The University of Michigan Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality (PCCN)
- Reporting trans discrimination to the City of Ann Arbor and to the State of Michigan
- what trash thing?
And, for our Beyond Council Advocacy Corner,
- The Planning Commission agenda covering ADUs, which includes info on how to dial in to voice your support for the meeting on Tuesday, March 16th; or you can email [email protected] anytime between now and then
- Learn more about ADUs here
- And make sure to press A2 congressional reps Debbie Dingell, Debbie Stabenow, and Gary Peters to make sure Ann Arbor gets its proper allocation of the federal American Recovery Plan funds
We've launched a ko-fi! If you'd like to support the podcast beyond listening, you can now send a few bucks our way. Listening will always be free! This just helps defray our hosting costs of hosting the podcast. Thanks to those of you who have already found and supported the ko-fi; you have covered our first year of fees, and gotten our hamster wheels turning about new projects...
Come check out our episodes and transcripts at our website, annarboraf.com. Keep the conversation going with fellow Ann Arbor AFers on Twitter and Facebook. And hey, if you wanted to ko-fi us a few dollars to help us with hosting, we wouldn't say no.
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Deeper Dive: Power, Personalities, and Perceptions of Council
Today we are taking a deeper dive into City leadership, because there's more to council than just the resolutions. We’re talking about different visions for the city and how those affect the choices our leaders make, along with personalities, power, and local news. We even get into our first conspiracy theory.
Links from the show:
- Chuck Marohn's article on the good party/bad party analogy
- More information about the weak-mayor system (Ann Arbor is a version of Version 3)
- The a2council hashtag on Twitter
- Cohost Michelle's Twitter, in case you want to mainline those good good civics
- If you're not sure why we talked about spoons
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Next Episode
Deeper Dive: Healthy Streets
Today we are taking a deeper dive into the Healthy Streets program that Ann Arbor implemented in response to reduced car traffic and increased demand for safe walking and biking space.
Links and references:
- Ann Arbor's Healthy Streets website, and 2021 survey. You can also see the current 2021 survey results on a map.
- Dr. Destiny Thomas, ‘Safe Streets’ Are Not Safe for Black Lives.
- If you want to get deep into the data the city collected on the 2020 Healthy Streets program, it's all here. Or you can just read the summary memo.
- A2 Council resolution for downtown street closures and citywide street closures in 2020.
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